No. 41

Message from the President

Liz Philosophos Cooper

Editor’s Note

Susan Allen Ford

Tensions at the Table: Dining-Room Dynamics in Abbeys and Castles

Hazel Jones

The Implicit Dramas of Northanger Abbey

Marcia McClintock Folsom

John Wiltshire

Marvelous Miss Morland

Jocelyn Harris

“Pretty Fairly Divided Between the Sexes”: Jane Austen on Gender

Jenny Rebecca Rytting

Jane Austen: Gothic Novelist?

Kim Wheatley

“Real Solemn History” and Cassandra Leigh Cooke’s Battleridge

Susan Allen Ford

“Don’t Know Much about History”: History and Histrionics, Moderation and Passion in Northanger Abbey

Theresa Kenney

Eleanor Tilney as Cultural Historian

Natasha Duquette

Northanger before the Tilneys: Austen’s Abbey and the Religious Past

Roger E. Moore

Roses, Hyacinths, and Pineapples: Historical and Ecocritical Concerns in Northanger Abbey and The Mysteries of Udolpho

Tomoko Nakagawa

“Some Handsome Warrior” and “Ladies in Blue Satin”: Portraiture in Gothic Novels and the Work of Jane Austen

Kristen Miller Zohn

“Books Universally Read and Admired”: Mrs. Smith in Northanger Abbey

Elaine Bander

The Gothic Mystery of Francis Lathom’s Life

Diana Reynolds Roome

Catherine of Washington Square: Henry James and Northanger Abbey

Juliet McMaster

“The Difference between True and False Politeness”: Pride and Prejudice and a Sermon of Bishop Hurd

Augusta Hardy

Jane Austen’s Textual Revisions in “The Watsons”: A Preliminary Study

Joanne Wilkes

“Save Us from Deceiving Ourselves”: What Jane Austen’s Prayers Reveal about Self-Deception in Emma

Mira Zaman

Austen and Richardson’s Clarissa: The Case of Persuasion

Christopher Fanning